Big Ideas tagged with "Happiness"
- Stephen Covey: Quadrant II
- Viktor Frankl: Aiming at Success
- T. Harv Eker: CZ = WZ
- thinkAreté.theManifesto
- Martin Seligman: The Science of Happiness
- Martin Seligman: Jobs vs. Careers vs. Callings
- Mary-Elaine Jacobsen: Hard Work
- Martin Seligman: Savor
- Breath Sex
- David K. Reynolds: Now What Needs To Be Done?
- Quit Worrying About What Others Think
- Stop!
- Viktor Frankl: Serve.
- Viktor Frankl: Let It Ensue
- Stephen Covey: Commitments
- David K. Reynolds: The Five Principles of Constructive Living
- Martin Seligman: Signature Strengths
- Robert Fritz: Choices: Fundamental + Primary + Secondary
- Richard Koch: What's Easy?
- Your Suffering
- Russell Simmons: Tapas
- Marcus Aurelius: For What Were You Made?
- Russell Simmons: Karma Economics
- Lao-tzu: Build Up Virtue
- Lao-tzu: Lao-tzu & Fulfillment
- Put Your Socks On.
- Stephen Covey: Learn, Commit & Do
- Vernon Howard: Mysticism
- Eric Butterworth: Givers vs. Takers
- Anthony de Mello: It’s Depressed
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
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"Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching
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Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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"Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it."
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
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"From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."
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"At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift--a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life."~ Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence," commenting on "Authentic Happiness" by Martin Seligman
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness…she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man.
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Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
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Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers—show me yours—show me that it is possible—show me your achievement—and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"
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"This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return...One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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Money really cannot buy happiness.
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You've got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness.
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You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful--and neglected--secret to success and happiness.
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It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.
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I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
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